Feasibility test of a UK-scalable electronic system for regular collection of patient-reported outcome measures and linkage with clinical cancer registry data: The electronic Patient-reported Outcomes from Cancer Survivors (ePOCS) system

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ashley, Laura ^a   Jones, Helen ^a   Forman, David ^b   Newsham, Alex ^a   Brown, Julia ^a   Downing, Amy ^c   Velikova, Galina ^a   Wright, Penny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c St James's Institute of Oncology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGISTER; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 80855130177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-11-66     Document Type: Article

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